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he Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Agriculture and Food Security in his linkedin article has defended the federal government’s decision to import...
THE Supreme Court felt a few years ago that the two years imprisonment now meted out for causing death due to rash driving is ‘grossly...
RADIO Pakistan’s voice is no more confined to Medium Wave, Shortwave and FM. Listeners across the world now listen to its programmes and news...
ONCE when my wife had gone to New York to see our daughter, I was on my own, and quite often ordered food from hotels nearby. One morning it was spicy...
ART, an expression of human emotions and desires, manifests in many forms: music, painting, literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Anger, greed,...
Every few weeks, Artificial Intelligence seems to produce another headline. A new model. A larger investment. A faster processor. A company valued in...
August 24, 2026 Ukraine celebrates 35th anniversary of its Independence. This day back in 1991 the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Act of Declaration of...
Foreign aid, traces its origin back to the19th century, has greatly contributed to supporting lower income countries, countries hit by natural...
Pakistan’s stock market has shown a remarkable performance in recent times, with the KSE-100 Index delivering a cumulative return of 347% in dollar...
SOME regions are more than mere patches of land on a map. They are masterpieces of nature that make us wonder whether beauty could take physical form....
It is high time to remind all development authorities, municipalities and local governments to take action regarding two grossly neglected linear...
Whenever terrorism in Balochistan is discussed, the debate is often limited to the conflict between the state and militant groups. However, there is...
PAKISTAN’S health sector is under immense pressure. A deeply troubling incident occurred at a major public hospital in Karachi. A woman in labour...
There are moments in aviation history when rank becomes irrelevant, age loses meaning and one de-cision outweighs an entire lifetime. For Pakistan Air...
China and Pakistan have cultivated an exemplary and diversified friendship over seven decades. Despite multiple challenges, the leadership and people...
Every nation reaches defining moments when its greatest questions cease to be political and become institutional. Such moments compel societies to...
US-China relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. The trajectory not only affects the well-being of the people of...
Remembering President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed on his death anniversary On 17 August 1988, the skies over Bahawalpur claimed a...
For decades, conventional discourse framed Balochistan through geographical isolation and physical deficit, viewing its vast landmass—over 43...
Allied Fireworks Delivers Landmark Pyromusical Show at Marqa-e-Haq Monument I first met Shahid Butt Sahib , CEO Allied Fireworks when our government...
PAKISTAN is a nuclear-armed state with highly trained, battle-hardened and combat-experienced defence forces. For the past 25 years, they have fought...
PAKISTAN has spent much of its 79-year journey learning how to survive. Partition left millions uprooted; wars tested its resolve; political upheavals...
PAKISTAN’S population debate is often reduced to a familiar set of figures: how fast the country is growing, how many schools and jobs will be...
PAKISTAN’S illegal organ trade has once exposed a brutal truth: where poverty, weak oversight and medical malpractice meet, vulnerable people can be...
As we celebrate 79th Independence Day of Pakistan, it is appropriate that we take stock of what Pakistan was, what it went through in recent decades...
US-China relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. The trajectory not only affects the well-being of the people of...
Dealers' association says an increase of Rs1.34 per litre in margins has been approved by the government.
Every year, as the fourteenth of August approaches, the country begins to wear its identity a little more visibly. Green and white flags appear on...
PAKISTAN’S Independence Day is not merely an annual ritual of flags and parades; it is a reaffirmation of a promise, the promise that this nation...
August 14, 2026 marks the 79th Independence Day of Pakistan. A day filled with pride, devotion and integrity for every Pakistani, regardless of caste,...
PAKISTAN faces a rapid population surge, with an estimated population nearing 260 million and an annual growth rate of roughly 2.5%. Ranking as the...
Pakistan’s gravest crisis is not merely its shortage of foreign exchange, rising debt, increasing poverty, frozen exports, mega corruption or...
PAKISTAN is facing an alarming rise in patients. In recent years, even expensive hospitals are overflowing. People stand in long queues, spending...
COURTS of law are meant for imparting justice between the parties and a party that ap-proaches the court with filthy hands taints the stream of...
GREENLAND, the world’s largest island, occupies a unique and often misunderstood position in global geopolitics. Geographically part of the North...
THE soil of Gaza has become an archive of unmeasured grief, but a few events capture the sheer scale of human erasure as starkly as the mass burial in...
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s three-day visit to Saudi Arabia has taken place at a decisive moment for Pakistan’s foreign policy. The visit is...
Imagine a Pakistan where chambers of commerce run national apprenticeship programs, where government innovation funds back student startups in...
COTTON, often called Pakistan’s “white gold,” has long been the backbone of the country’s agriculture and textile economy. It is not merely a...
In Pakistan, the most important aspect of wellbeing remains the most neglected. Ten years after this crisis was last written about, the diagnosis has...
ANY national ecosystem requires performance indicators and benchmarks against which progress can be measured. Global indices provide a holistic view...
Pakistan’s textile and garment industry stands at the centre of the country’s economic identity. It contributes approximately 8.5 per cent of GDP,...
Pakistan’s major cities experience the same cycle of disruption every monsoon. A few hours of heavy rainfall are enough to inundate roads, submerge...
A child who does not get enough to eat during her first thousand days will earn less throughout her life. Stunted growth leads to impaired cognitive...
Every revolution sells itself as the end of an old cruelty and the birth of a fairer order. Almost none of them keep that promise without first...
Let’s be honest: Pakistan’s system of government currently resembles a family WhatsApp group where everyone has admin rights, nobody agrees on...
On 3rd August 2026, about one in every five Ethiopians put down their usual work and picked up a shovel. Be it a minister, diplomat, farmer or...
PAKISTAN’S governance crisis is habitually diagnosed as a failure of legislation. Every economic downturn, constitutional controversy, environmental...
FOR half a century, Pakistan’s economic debate has circled the same two prescriptions: com-press imports or expand exports. Both have failed to...
“Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth… are signs for people of understanding.” (Qur’an 3:190) “Indeed, in the creation of...